Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Timeline
Generic

Matthias Hehn

Singapore

Summary

Payments technology professional with well-rounded skills and 15+ years of industry experience. Expertise across a range of areas including:


  • Technical and sales consultancy,
  • Solution design and product management,
  • System Integration / Documentation,
  • Creation of monitoring and marketing materials
  • Project implementation


Passionate about user experience and product development with strong focus on process improvements. Focus areas are:


Digital Payments | Card Issuing | Acquiring | Payment Processing | Presales and Business Development | Business and Solution Analysis | Product and Process Management | Client and Product Implementation | API and Service Development

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager - Contract

Various Companies
04.2022 - Current

Several contracts / projects with companies in the Payments / Fintech space covering:


  • Requirement and business analysis
  • Product review and redesign
  • Project / Implementation Planning
  • In depth payment processing knowledge


For both issuing and acquiring projects, eCommerce and POS integrations


Some travelling in the APAC region


Implementation Manager

Global Processing Services
01.2020 - 01.2022
  • Requirements collection and business analysis during onboarding of new clients
  • Scope assessment and solution proposal for a specific project
  • Functional consultancy for card issuing projects
  • Documentation of business requirements and use case scenarios
  • Coordination with internal stakeholders and card schemes to ensure that a project is delivered in a timely manner
  • Managing implementation lifecycle based on client and regulatory requirements
  • Building and managing relationships with various party involved in delivery (Clients / Card Schemes /Partners / Vendors)
  • Generating project related documentation and delivery of multiple, large scale projects.


Sales Consultant - Financial Institutions

Wirecard Asia
06.2018 - 01.2020
  • Technical and product consultation for Financial Institution's sales at Wirecard
  • Client presentations and product demos to explain the complex financial products and services
  • Responding to functional and technical queries of RFIʼs and RFPʼs and general queries
  • Technical and business analysis for new clients relating to: Assessment of client requirements and indication of the best suited product / solution
  • Negotiation with the various departments / vendors to ensure timely delivery of projects
  • Created documentation to assist sales team on technical and project specific scenarios.


Product Manager

Paidy
06.2017 - 03.2018
  • Researching customer requirements and market opportunities for the product family
  • Documenting business and functional requirements for payment solutions
  • Identification of product gaps and develop ideas how to grow market share
  • Development and executing product positioning strategies
  • Product development starting with requirements to prototyping and deployment
  • Technical and functional assistance to sales / account management
  • Review of marketing / sales strategies with the relevant teams.


Product Manager

2C2P Ltd
12.2015 - 05.2017
  • Creation of use cases, assistance with scope assessment for new product development
  • Managed payment product development life cycle, including
  • Implemented a range of new infrastructure and services to enhance the companies product range
  • Liaising with relevant product and project teams on approach, project methodology and product definition
  • Assisted sales with product demo's, workshops and solution designs
  • Worked with development to produce design specs, user manuals and white papers.


Senior Business Analyst - Contract

Triquesta
05.2015 - 11.2015
  • Technical requirement analysis and implementation of an invoice management system for banking clients
  • Scope and effort assessments, client workshops to determine functional requirements of the solution
  • Preparation of functional specification, use cases and test scenarios to match client requirements
  • Conducting workshops and training sessions for clients
  • Providing on side support to clients during implementation
  • Presenting and demonstrating the existing collateral management system to new clients.


Solution Analyst

Yalamanchili
05.2012 - 12.2013
  • Consultation and collection of requirements for various financial systems to banking and fintech clients, including
  • Preparation of Business Requirement Documentation, Use Case Scenarios and sequence modelling
  • Scope and requirement workshops with client's
  • Gap analysis with internal departments, e.g
  • Relating to product customization, new interfaces
  • Presentations of the software solutions to prospects and clients, responding to RFIʼs and RFPʼs
  • Implementation of an ACS system for 3DSecure transaction processing
  • API and mobile application development, code review and UAT of new services.


Technical Account Manager

Cybersource / Visa
12.2010 - 03.2012
  • Sales Engineering and assisting with RFP and product proposals
  • Consultation / technical advice for clients on integration projects for payment processing
  • Functional support to merchants on product / integration issues
  • Product customisation for payment services, tokenization and risk management tools for industry specific needs
  • SME for Airline / 3DSecure / financial gateways and tokenization.


Sales Executive

Behringer / Music Group
08.2008 - 11.2010
  • Assisting in the creation of a financial shared services centre
  • Mapping of workflows, process implementation
  • Coordinating transfer of duties s from local offices
  • Subject matter expert/trainer for Dealer Support Business applications
  • Processing of container shipments / Letter of Credit processing


Technical Support Engineer

Bibit / Worldpay
06.2003 - 10.2007
  • Participation in pre-sales meetings to discuss requirements and project scope
  • Collection of technical requirements for new customers, consulting on implementation
  • Product customization / project management for large corporate clients
  • Technical contact for development and integration of new solutions / products
  • UAT and production testing of clients online applications / integrations
  • Working on requirements and scope reviews for larger clients


  • Providing training to various departments within the organization
  • UAT and production testing of clients online applications.

Education

Vocational Degree - Customer Service

James Watt College
Greenock, UK
07.1990

Diploma - Applied Computer Science

EDFrau Business School
Erfurt, Germany
09.1999

Commercial Diploma - Travel / Tourism

Berufschule Jenoptik GmbH
Jena, Germany
07.1993

Trade Diploma - Precision Optician

VEB Carl Zeiss Jena
Jena, Germany

Skills

  • XML / JSON
  • ISO 8583
  • ISO 20022
  • API / Web Services
  • JIRA / CRM tools
  • Agile / Waterfall
  • Project Management Tools
  • 3DSecure / Tokenisation
  • Elastic Search / Figma
  • MS Office

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Product Manager - Contract

Various Companies
04.2022 - Current

Implementation Manager

Global Processing Services
01.2020 - 01.2022

Sales Consultant - Financial Institutions

Wirecard Asia
06.2018 - 01.2020

Product Manager

Paidy
06.2017 - 03.2018

Product Manager

2C2P Ltd
12.2015 - 05.2017

Senior Business Analyst - Contract

Triquesta
05.2015 - 11.2015

Solution Analyst

Yalamanchili
05.2012 - 12.2013

Technical Account Manager

Cybersource / Visa
12.2010 - 03.2012

Sales Executive

Behringer / Music Group
08.2008 - 11.2010

Technical Support Engineer

Bibit / Worldpay
06.2003 - 10.2007

Vocational Degree - Customer Service

James Watt College

Diploma - Applied Computer Science

EDFrau Business School

Commercial Diploma - Travel / Tourism

Berufschule Jenoptik GmbH

Trade Diploma - Precision Optician

VEB Carl Zeiss Jena
Matthias Hehn